#lumine is my mc

[harmorii]

i just love them a lot

[hime-the-kage]

Original: https://x.com/sweepswoop_/status/1813707550493483334

[alchemania]

Snow White Dove, Blood Stained Wings.

(Or, the Traveler has a harrowing encounter which leaves her reeling.)

There is a shivering blob of white amongst the snow of Dragonspine, and as Lumine draws closer, jet black hair accented by hot pink stands out in sharp contrast.

Oh. That's a body.

“Hello?” the blonde called, kneeling down and ignoring how the cold bit into her legs. “Can you hear me?” No answer, so she shook the smaller person a little roughly, causing a pair of snow white wings to pop up and flitter rapidly as they jolted awake. Lumine screamed and leaned back, trying to avoid getting walloped in the face, and watched as the other person hissed and grabbed their right wing- now that the Traveler looked closer, it was moving oddly …was it broken? “Here, let me help you up. There's a church down in the city,” and strong hands lift the other person out of the snow - now that she can see the face, it seems to be another young lady, and her cheeks and nose are rosy from the chill.

“..thank you,” the girl manages, leaning all her weight on the Traveler. “You are too kind..”

It doesn't take too long to get to the church, taking the teleporters. The petite young lady is tucked into a bed and told to rest, and after ensuring she'll be alright, Lumine makes way to go.

“..it seems the rumors were true, you really will help just about anyone.. I wonder if one day, that will be your downfall..”

Lumine stopped in her tracks, looking to the inhabitant in the bed in her peripheral vision. She looked so small, the blankets covering her up about to her chin, but the room suddenly felt very, veryyyyy cold.

“..what do you mean by that,” she hears herself say, by some miracle.

“Oh…don't pay me any attention,” the raven haired girl placated, waving a hand weakly. “Simply thinking aloud..”.

“..who are you,” Lumine demanded, turning fully around to face the bed as her expression hardened.

“Does that matter..? Would you have left me alone on that mountain to die if you didn't like the answer?”

Silence.

“.. I don't mean you any harm, Traveler, or the people of Mondstadt, if that's what you're worried about," was the quiet reply after a long moment. "I swear it. But I'm aware you do not like the people I work with very much, and so I deemed it best to keep my mouth shut until you offered me assistance.”

“The folks you work with,” Lumine repeated almost dumbly, looking more and more rattled by the moment.

“You got one of my coworkers killed back in Inazuma. Does that ring any bells???”

Lumine can't breathe.

“You're a Harbinger?”

Rapidly, she goes down the list in her mind. Signora was dead, and she'd already met Arlecchino, so this had to be either Sandrone or Columbina.

“Which one?” she barely manages.

“The Damsel,” the girl replies easily, eyes finally opening - they're a beautiful magenta, almost mesmerizing. “Nice to meet you, Traveler. You don't have to be afraid. Like I said, I have no desire to harm you, or anyone here. It's a little disheartening to think you may have simply abandoned me if you knew who I was beforehand….. but at least that's not what happened, no? I don't know why you're so flustered, Master Childe speaks so highly of you -”

“He's NOT my friend!”

There go the wings again, slightly.

“.. we're not all horrible people, you know. Not all of us had a choice in this.”

Lumine thinks of the twins, and Freminet.

Columbina looks sad now, genuinely so.

“...Why can't you understand that?”

“Well, sorry for being a little on edge, considering some of your coworkers have tried to KILL me -”

“But I'm not them. I already said I have no interest in harming you. Do you think that I'm lying?”

Silence, painful.

“Perhaps if you stopped looking at us through your black and white lens, you'll see that we, and you, are much closer to grey than you'd like to admit -”

The door slams, the sound resounding. Lumine is gone.

Columbina closes her eyes, sighing.

“...well. You can't fault a girl for trying.”

She steeples her hands over her chest then, expression thoughtful. “The heart that forever bleeds will one day cease to beat. . I wonder if she will realize that before it's too late. I surely hope so.”

And the Harbinger slept.

[neon-leon22]

I am a simple man, a simple man whose favorite character always ends up being the silent protagonist of a game that's dialogue is almost all up to the player and therefore viewed as a self insert by most of the fandom whether they were intended that way or not.

[dumbauntie]

Lumine in my Spanish book.... pretty ♡

[yestrday]

who’s your fav hsr character? mine is kinda basic, but it’s stelle. she’s so funny

we're the same bro... i love stelle sm it's insane shes so fucking stupid and my mind goes crazy every time i think about the time she spent with the stellaron hunters like whaaaat. was she evil. was she emo. did she do stellaron evil biddings. what was she liiiiikeeee

also i love welt ever since he showed up on honkai impact 3rd. i love my old men. and boothill has been rotating in my brain like a rotiserrie chicken ever since he was announced

[lunaetis]

[ i think my muse for eden / trailblazer is solid enough that i can say for certain i have a character of her in my mind and i know how i want to play / write her. however, for some reasons i'm still anxious over the idea of throwing her at ppl ? i've been play-testing her with a close friend on discord, and having her answer things here & there on dash to test the waters. but i'm still very reluctant & anxious to actually do a proper starter call for her or to throw her at ppl's muses hjlkhklhjlk. that's why i want to say THANK YOU to those who send her unprompted things that help me flesh her out more. i hope i'll be confident enough to throw her at ppl soon bc aaaah i love her a lot i have so much fun writing her. ]

[orchid3a]

read on tiktok somewhere that between caelus and stelle there is a difference in how they act around dan heng n march 7th. many said that stelle jokes and is more carefree with march, while with dan heng stelle is more "reserved". on the other hand, caelus is more "close" to dan heng than to march 7th + caelus is more "emotional" than stelle ;^;

the conclusion? stellemarch and dancaelus are canon <3

[satoruxx]

i dont even play genshin that often anymore but i immediately came back for the sibling lore and now that i finished the quest im ready to sob….

[shishizhka]

За морем царевна есть,

Что не можно глаз отвесть:

Днём свет божий затмевает,

Ночью землю освещает,

Месяц под косой блестит,

А во лбу звезда горит.

[yuquinzel]

OH MY GAWD????M HEELLO???? WHSUAKSKLAKA THEYRE SOO ALSP PRETYY WTF HOMEBS ASTA SHES SOENDODKDKD DAN HENG BRO IVE BEEN WAITING TOO LONG

HIMEKOOOOOOJSKSKSKSKSJSJ

[quadrupleangst]

Drew Lumine on ibispaint with my finger and without the undo button

[roleplay-abiogenesis2]

Every step of your adventure on this land speaks wonder. Feel it with your heart.

[tartigglez]

whats really funny is that hsr male mc is named caelus

my name is cael

I play as male mc and didn't know this before I started the game

[stellarcn]

The virgin Lumine vs the chad Stelle.

[lumitris]

second part is here before I lose my train of thought. continuing on from her experience in teyvat. This one primarily focuses on Aether's involvement.

Her entire search begins with Aether. For the first few places she visits, that is her only goal. It's also why there is such a shift in Lumine's tone when first going to Inazuma, and I will go into that once we get there.

The moment she lays eyes on him, there is relief, and also heartbreak. Had he been looking for her? She had been searching all this time. Lumine's immediate reaction is not to question his involvement, not to go into details about Teyvat, she didn't care about the gods, the abyss, any of it anymore. She found him. What she asks is to come with her to another world. It shows that, before this point, she had no deeper connections to the people of Teyvat. She was still thinking in her old ways.

And he rejects her. Do you understand how that could feel? It's not just a sibling relationship, but he was her entire world. When they were together, they were home. But he can't. He has to stay, and she can't understand why. Unlike her, Aether has become attached to this world. Or, the OLD world. He woke up before she did, the second time, once again, and he journeyed this world. The truth he found made him stay. But why would that matter?

If given the opportunity, Lumine would have gone with him. Anything to make sure they were still together. But he instructs her to finish her journey alone. To experience what he has, before leaving again. This time of his own free will. And it destroys her.

Paimon keeps her spirits up, keeping her moving forward (this is so important, and I will go into Paimon more next time because this! Is so important for Lumine's character) and so she finds a new goal. To be with him again, she has to truly learn about the world she's in. But, god, does she immediately take that to heart? Yes and no. She still is searching for the unknown god, but she is also searching for answers regarding Khaenri'ah. Of any ties that relate to the abyss and her brother.

Inazuma see's a completely different Lumine to start with, and, what's so nice about it too, is that it also changes Lumine from what she was before. This, for me, is where her true change begins.

Lumine doesn't want to get involved. She doesn't want to care about the nation, it's issues, the people; no one. She is here merely to find answers in order to leave with her brother again. This decision does haunt her now, because it leads to some terrible choices. I think outside of story elements, it takes a longer time for Lumine to come on board. It really takes the struggling of others, to witness that, for her to want to help. She doesn't feel manipulated either, but rather, she has her eyes opened.

When facing the Raiden Shogun, she's reckless. Still in that mind frame to finish things quickly, and god she's arrogant. And it's here she's struck down and that gives long term affects going forward, because it's here that she's reminded that she can die. That people can take her down, that the GODS can take her down, as before then she hadn't necessarily lost a battle. And this is what Inazuma was up against.

She finds companionship with the Resistance. Once again, I think outside of gameplay, she's there for quite awhile. Her friendship with Teppei is formed during that revelation of her own weakness, and she's still rather fragile from it. With him, she starts to feel like herself again. Enough to forget about her sorrows with Aether, and put her back on track to her true journey.

His death is a giant piece of the puzzle that is Lumine's path. In a way, she loved him, she felt genuine connection to him that she'd had reservations about doing to anyone in this world. But to her, he died because of her incompetence, and it kills her. Even now. If she had stopped acting selfish at the beginning, if she'd taken less time to get involved, and to really commit to her travels in Inazuma, she might have been able to stop it before things got so bad. Obviously, this affects her relationship with the Wanderer years later, and a reason for her hostility at the beginning.

When Lumine is able to overcome the Raiden Shogun because of everyone's ambitions, it resonates with her. All their feelings, and hopes and dreams; even now, it stays with her. This is also so important. It is the cheesy trope that her friends give her strength, but it also transcends that.

After this? Lumine's desire to be with Aether, that desperation, begins to fade. Enough that she can even agree that what he's doing is wrong. Lumine takes her own time to learn things about this world without going down her brother's path. Yes, she misses him, god she misses him. She cries in her dreams (which is canon now yes!) whenever he's on her mind. She has nightmares about him, and how she can never reach him.

But now, like Aether, she was beginning to connect with this world, but perhaps, now, in the opposite way he wanted. She befriended the Gods, even her own enemies from time to time, and she is learning to love Teyvat without the trauma of Khaenri'ah and that entire road that Aether went down, which we know was around the time of Sumeru for his journey. She also has paimon, and that alone changes their routes. She has friends that he would have never met also by her side. She even finds herself falling in love with many who cross her path, outside of her usual, simplistic desire.

She still can't commit to staying because of the people, of even A person, but at this section of her journey, she knows there is a want there. But even now, Aether comes first, just, not in the same way it did when she first started. She also won't abandon this world for him, and she will protect it, even from him; she'll try and convince him to stop, and to come with her. Whether to stay in Teyvat, or traverse the stars once more.